Lakeview, OR 97637 Frost Dates
97637, near Lakeview, OR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/10, roughly 286 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/14, roughly 94 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lakeview in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lakeview's growing season runs out in roughly 2 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
06/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lakeview against the rest of the dataset
About 94 days separate Lakeview's last and first frost, putting it 39,829 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 429 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97637: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lakeview's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lakeview's dates instead of trusting one.